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olivias 's review for:
The Passage
by Justin Cronin
DID NOT FINISH
As many other reviewers have said, the first part of the book, while slow to develop, is great, and the plot and characters kept me engaged.
The jump to the second part is jarring, but I was still invested and the writing is good enough that I carried on for a good few hundred pages. There's just way too many characters, I don't care about them, and the jumping between viewpoints...I get that these are all criticisms that could be applied to Stephen King's The Stand (one of my all-time favourites), which this book has been compared to, so I guess it's a matter of personal taste how much of this you can tolerate. To be fair, though, The Stand keeps the same main characters throughout, and continues to develop them. The massive host of new characters introduced in the second part of this, and then minimally developed was what I couldn't stick with.
I could have finished reading this book, wouldn't have even of minded it, but I just don't have enough time to read a book that I don't actually WANT to return to, in my spare time. I read enough stuff that "I should read" for work.
The jump to the second part is jarring, but I was still invested and the writing is good enough that I carried on for a good few hundred pages. There's just way too many characters, I don't care about them, and the jumping between viewpoints...I get that these are all criticisms that could be applied to Stephen King's The Stand (one of my all-time favourites), which this book has been compared to, so I guess it's a matter of personal taste how much of this you can tolerate. To be fair, though, The Stand keeps the same main characters throughout, and continues to develop them. The massive host of new characters introduced in the second part of this, and then minimally developed was what I couldn't stick with.
I could have finished reading this book, wouldn't have even of minded it, but I just don't have enough time to read a book that I don't actually WANT to return to, in my spare time. I read enough stuff that "I should read" for work.